Since the Oslo accords were signed, the number of Israeli settlers in illegal settlements has quadrupled, hundreds of kilometres of wall have been built and two million people in Gaza are blockaded and suffering soaring unemployment.

UN human rights experts say that the international community has a duty to stand by their collective promise to protect the rights of the Palestinian people, and to prevent Israel’s planned construction of housing units in its West Bank settlements.

Amnesty International is urging employees of the tourism company to speak out against the firm’s role in fuelling abuses with its listings of properties and attractions in Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

At a joint consultation on the Holy Land, the World Council of Churches and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA released a statement calling for an end to the denial of rights and generations of suffering in the Holy Land.